This is an extremely insightful post, for which I am inestimably grateful. I also note it reveals some of the reasons actual freedom will not only survive the coming devastation, but will ultimately prevail and humanity escape our bonds to overlords to produce an economic paradise we will create with our own hands.

Decentralization of the means of production is the ultimate economic mechanism that vastly outcompetes all forms of centralized industry. Centralization, as you show and explain above, is hopelessly burdened with extravagant overhead, not just in provision of centralized transport mechanisms, like the Silk Road, but extremely expensive war machines, and the vast expenditures in corruption of national polities that absolutely are necessary to centralized industry and overlords today.

While many suppose decentralized production is laughably easily suppressed, they are completely wrong, because it is in fact almost impossible to suppress for several reasons. First is that it is dramatically more productive than centralization, which, as I have pointed out, is hopelessly burdened with overhead, such as the sybaritic lifestyles of overlords that vainly expect to not be carbon tracked and canceled by their hordes of minions - that literally do not think they are minions of overlords LOL. Second, hierarchical institutions are very powerful insofar as the concentrate the power of the heirarch by the minions in the institution. The Pope is powerful because his pronouncements are followed by churchmen, and the same is true of other religious institutions. Corporations are powerful for the same reason: the CEO dictates the pursuits of employees. Governments, transnational organizations, and book clubs all operate the same way, concentrating the power in the hands of an overlord that commands the individual powers of the institution.

However, decentralization operates completely differently, and confounds hierarchies. Instead of an overlord directing the application of power (which, BTW, is always diluted as the individuals under command must also tend to their hearths as well) there are myriad overlords that each direct their hearths, uniquely, and per their own interests. In order for overlords to suppress that vast army of upstarts, they must specifically target each of them. This is why we see that only certain criminal prosecutions are undertaken as means of terrorism, such as Ross Ulbricht, or Jeffery Epstein (although that is clearly necessary to end in murder to silence him) and etc., whose victims are sentenced to lifetimes and clearly meant to provide examples to terrify potential copycats.

That just cannot be done to all decentralized production, and when supply lines are cut, too many people will not eat bugs, nor live in bugpods in 15 minute prisons, nor get jabbed, nor accept UBI CBDCs, and on and on. The more centralized the power, the less competent it is to suppress actual decentralization, which is exactly why we need more and more decentralized means of production owned and operated by individual households around the world, as fast and as productive as possible. As the insanely hyperproductive decentralized production begins to reward producers, consumers will observe that increased economic benefit they are not taking advantage of, and also how inexpensive and simple aquaponics are, or 3D printing is, or creating electric power is, and etc. Each producer deploys their solutions individually, and one push against them simply pushes past almost all of them, rather than against one monolithic enemy of the technocratic totalitarian tyranny.

Then, diversity really will be our strength. Gardening is perhaps the easiest and lowest tech means of production we can undertake, and also for this reason, the easiest for overlords to break and subdue. However aquaponics enables that agricultural production to include meat, and to be cryptically employed indoors, so is far more difficult to suppress than the gardens of Ukrainians during the Holodomor, for example, or those of the Chinese during the Great Leap Forward. The advent of 3D printers that can use pastes, like clays, cement and so forth, has potential far beyond chocolate confections envisioned by the developers, and non-plastic utensils of ceramic, water pipes, and all sorts of building materials like tiles become facile of local bespoke production using local resources that aren't expensive like plastic filaments (despite the ability to recycle common plastic waste to produce construction materials), and basically comprise anything you can squeeze out of a tube as well. Then there's metals, that have so far been successfully suppressed, but are absolutely possible as we see the first 3D printed spacecraft has already been launched off Earth, and it is absolutely possible to use wirefeed welding 3D printing by scaling it down massively, thereby dramatically reducing the temperatures and power needs, while concomitantly increasing accuracy and reducing speed.

The simple fact is that hierarchies can only deal with one problem at a time, while decentralization creates potentially tens of millions of problems to resolve, which cannot be done.

This is the key to freedom and prosperity for humanity that will not be coming from China, Russia, the West, nor even the Serbian nation, but free people in individual households themselves. As technology continues to advance, decentralization will become more productive, and less expensive, and easier to deploy, and more people will do more of it, and every single item we make and use ourselves or trade with our neighbors for cuts the pay of overlords, and decreases their power over us. There's a tipping point somewhere, and we're getting closer to it than we imagine.

It is easy to smell the desperation of the psychopathic overlords as they push the Overton window dramatically, trying to get in front of our ability to outproduce them. They face the dilemma that they utterly alienate reasonable people when they advance such outlandish sexual perversions and mutilation they need in order to reduce our population competing with them, destroy the three r's of education to prevent us from learning how to produce ourselves our civil society, and push ever more ever harder drugs on ever younger kids to derange them and prevent their rational acts to build wealth and freedom.

I am confident they cannot win. I am also aware that this has been prophesied thousands of years ago, that free and prosperous people would seize the very stars of the heavens as footstools for their feet, and that surely is not about evil psychopathic overlords, but our beloved and beautiful sons and daughters that will inherit from us our legacy of freedom and justice.

Take heart my friend, and do not acquiesce to tyranny in despair at the derangement of the West, because China and Russia are no panacea, but overlords themselves. Just because one enemy is opposed by another does not mean either of them is our friend! Freedom, prosperity, and the felicit of our beloved sons and daughters is our goal, and we will not receive that from any overlords, but from only our own hands.

Seize the means of production suitable to your circumstances today, and build the civil society you intend your posterity to inherit. Don't leave it to someone else to do, because they will do things to you, rather than for you.

Thanks!